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My favorite silent film, The Big Parade, has several thousand extras in it.
All Quiet on the Western Front has quite a few extras also.

does anybody likes Ed Wood Movies? do you considere Plan 9 a classic?

"On The Waterfront" is a great one! It must have one of the greatest scenes ever..
......."I coulda' been a contender....."



"Ivan The Terrible" (I & II) by Sergei Eisenstein is one of my favorite silent films.



And ya! Chaplin

Gonna watch Inspector General with Danny Kay very soon.
I haven't seen it in years. Can't wait. Thanks Chris.

wha happened wrote:watched The Misfits earlier (Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe's last film)

Nice

The Bank Dick....love W.C.

Some of my other favorite comedies......
My Man Godfrey, You Can't Take It With You, His Girl Friday &
The Lady Killers. (Well, just about anything with Sir Alec)

And finally....Way Out West

The Royal Sperm wrote:does anybody likes Ed Wood Movies? do you considere Plan 9 a classic?

Depends how you define 'classic'. Sure its a cult hit, but can a film regarded to be the worst movie in history really be grouped together with legit good films of this era?

By the way, every so often, I find a tune that's in beat with my Laurel & Hardy dancing gif....cracks me up every time.

I think, if you're going to go with "B" sci-fi movies that are in the: "aliens trying to save the world by getting our attention" genre.....I'd have to go with "The Day The Earth Stood Still".

Classic 4-star "musicals"/films (not just live performance type)

..........A Hard Days Night!

I remember watching this film when I was a teenager...
It was in the portuguese public television although in RTP2 (somehow for the minorities as they still say in Portugal).
The promotional trailer was very teasing and... off course I was not expecting a great story but only a raw, carnal movie.

After all it was indeed a great (and extreme) love story. A great movie. And yes, Monique van de Ven was gorgeous!

It was good to remind this Dutch movie, M

It is also my opinion M !
I believe both in Spain and Portugal the title given to the film is Turkish delights. In Brazil is something like Insane passion.

Silver Forest wrote:It is also my opinion M !
I believe both in Spain and Portugal the title given to the film is Turkish delights. In Brazil is something like Insane passion.

Insane passion?

It's just Rutger and Monique had such a great chemistry in this movie.
It shows. I think it's beautiful. It should have won the Oscar. It was nominated for best International movie back then.
But I think it was a bit to much to handle to let it win.

Bizarre sci-fi........"Blade Runner" has to be a classic....."Sin City" too new?

Sci-fi/horror parody...."Young Frankenstein", & a more recent "classic", for me, is "The Fifth Element" (is there such a thing as instant classic, except in a review?)......too new also?

Speaking of Luc Besson, another movie of his wayyy better than The Fifth Element (which is pretty good), The Professional.
Another movie that's a bit of a take-off on that film, The Boondock Saints is also really good.
"Why don't you make like a tree, and get the fuck out of here!"









Blücher!

Try Profondo Rosso from 1975.

Thanks for the recommendations. I love off-beat sci-fi or just off-beat.

I was looking for a picture of a headless parking meter in tribute to Paul Newman and look who I found:

familiar face

And yes,
RIP Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)

Great one, SF. I'm curious--was it dubbed in Portuguese, or in native English with subtitles?

jamestkirk wrote:Great one, SF. I'm curious--was it dubbed in Portuguese, or in native English with subtitles?

No, fortunally all movies in Portugal have subtitles.
The same doesn't happen in Brazil and Spain, for instance. I cannot forget the experience of listening Gregory Peck in "castellano": "Mira hombre..."

Silver Forest wrote:

jamestkirk wrote:Great one, SF. I'm curious--was it dubbed in Portuguese, or in native English with subtitles?

No, fortunally all movies in Portugal have subtitles.
The same doesn't happen in Brazil and Spain, for instance. I cannot forget the experience of listening Gregory Peck in "castellano": "Mira hombre..."

I agree about keeping it real (native languages to their respective films).......I love subtitles. A good example would be The Seven
Samurai" when I saw it with English dubbed in! Simply awful!!! How can one
appreciate a fine performance of say a Brando or Newman... or Gregory Peck, no less, if it's not their own voice showing their full emotion & effect!
"Mira hombre!!" Dios mio!!

Amen!

And, shame on me! How could I forget to talk about Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to this movie. Can we really dissociate it from the movie?

Soundtracks are really important and in this case the two components merge in just one masterpiece. Amazing!

Now I think about it. The godfather movies. Classics.

As we get closer to Halloween, what classic horror movies do you all love?!!


Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

jamestkirk wrote:As we get closer to Halloween, what classic horror movies do you all love?!!


Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

1968 Romero's Night Of the living dead!


but i really prefer B movies from the 80's

Hitchcocks The Birds.

jamestkirk wrote:As we get closer to Halloween, what classic horror movies do you all love?!!


Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

+1.

Be afraid, be every afraid!

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